It was one of those important-but-dull Senate hearings that dont get broadcast even on C-SPAN 3.

An obscure subcommittee was taking expert testimony on patient safety Thursday, and only four of its 14 members bothered to show up. Several of the public seats were empty, too.

But Elizabeth Warren was in her element.

The committees most junior member was the first senator to arrive, five minutes early, and when it was her turn to question the witnesses she blew past the time limit. It was as though she were back at Harvard Law School, using the Socratic method to lead students to her desired conclusions in favor of stricter standards for hospitals and prescriptions.

A draft-Warren boomlet is underway, with the purpose of encouraging her to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 2016. It is eerily similar to the movement that propelled Barack Obama to challenge Clinton eight years ago even though, like Warren, Obama had then served not quite two years in the Senate. But while Warren is a compelling figure  a feisty populist at a time of inequality and resentment  her actions since arriving in the Senate suggest she has neither interest in nor aptitude for a presidential candidacy.

Warren has one serious problem...no enthusiasm in speeches. From maybe three of her speeches that I’ve seen...she’s nowhere near the class of Clinton or Obama. I should add since becoming a Senator....she hasn’t accomplished anything noteworthy...and she’s not a minority (unless you count the 1/16th in her as American-Indian).

Yes. A drumbeat for someone no one knows, except enough to know she’s been disgraced publicly for her dishonest biography.

That won’t matter. People will be told she is a compelling figure and they’ll nod their heads in agreement. Hillary is the smartest woman in the world. Obama is Peace Prize material. Michelle is just like Jackie O.

This stuff doesn’t work on me, so I assume it doesn’t work on anyone. Then you listen to people jabbering in the next booth at Denny’s, you look at who’s in line with you at the voting booth, and you realize that this stuff is as effective as it needs to be.

I agree and I think she might prove a more formidable candidate than Hillary who has so much baggage she needs a forklift truck but this gal has only the fraud of pretending to be an Indian trailing her. Warren is articulate, very good on her feet in front of cameras, female, and possessed of a whole new rationalization for more socialism.

I think her alleged distance from the media described by the author has to do with money rather than diffidence. Warren probably sees that Hillary has the money and the IOUs from the party establishment all monopolized and an Obama style upstart probably would have no chance this time around with the insiders who provide the indispensable funds.

There's a good reason why Warren is being considered: Hillary Clinton's "political baggage," not to mention Clinton will celebrate her 69th birthday just one month before Election Day 2016, could make Clinton extremely vulnerable during the 2016 election cycle. Besides, look at how Clinton's 2008 campaign literally fell apart by the time of the 2008 New Hampshire primary.

If there’s a lefty “draft Warren” movement, there needs to be an immediate “vet Warren” movement on behalf of conservatives. Dig out her past before they think to lock it all away. Obama got lucky, in that he hit the big time before anyone thought to check him out, and we can all see the result. Now is the time to find out who Warren is, what she’s done, and the people she’s associated with, and catalog it carefully.

I think there’s a lot of frustration between the Hillary camp and the Obama camp. Obama is pressing for Warren to get a fair chunk of national party campaign money, and dominates the leadership of the National Democratic Party. Both Bill and Hillary are against the Warren idea....but there’s no way that Hillary will be running in 2016. So, somewhere out there....there’s the Democrat that Hillary is going to saddle up with, and hope to take Obama’s “pal” down a couple of notches.

these leftists pimp out their hardest of hardcore leftists for political office then try to tell us on the Right who is an electable Republican and its never a Conservative. How is it these Leftists have any power over the GOP??????????

Warren has a face made specially for radio, worse than hillary. She is not charismatic or affable or has any kind of personality at all. Obama and Hillary at least can fake it with the “it” factor that makes some dummy think they are really swell, Elizabeth Warren hasn’t got it other than she excites the upper crust Harvard lib crowd.

One could have said the same thing about Obama in 2007. Executive ability and competence are not among the criteria that the left uses to select its candidates. The ability of conservatives to produce actual, documented negatives in a leftist candidate’s background have the potential to damage that candidate enough that they are unable to successfully run. The last thing the US needs right now is another cipher pushed into office solely because their presence makes the left “feel good” about themselves. The office of the President is not the venue for guilt assuagement.

They are not looking for accomplishment, clearly. Not with Obama, and not with whoever follows him. They are looking for another pantomime president who will keep the camera’s attention while the Committee governs.

You bet she’s running, and she’s supported by the same bunch of Sixties radicals that suckered the public into electing Obama. IMO she’s more dangerous than Hillary if that can be imagined! Her school marm appearance is totally misleading: she’s a very dangerous person.

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